SHAMELESS APPAREL Jenn St Sume 5.1 Ethan Cutkosky as Carl Gallagher in Shameless, “I Only Miss Her When I’m Breathing” From the time Roseanne debuted in the late 1980s through the mid-2010s, the constitution of the situation comedy has shifted toward comedy of perverse exploitation. I define the comedy of exploitation as a subgenre of television shows that both amplify and bastardize the voices of marginalized groups. Roseanne, which was broadcast from 1988 to 1997 on ABC, focuses on the complicated social and economic struggles of a family as the context for the series, but situations presented typically center on the eponymous character, a woman. The series deviates from the mythical television norm of the White, suburban, upwardly mobile, materialistic, functional family; instead, the cast features Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) and Dan Conner (John Goodman) as functional members of the lower-working class. The comedy of Roseanne stems from the couple’s ultimate resistance to a system that exploits their class position for the benefit of nameless and faceless 67